 Wow, I was wrong. Hey guys, Jeremy here and all right I've been wrong for a while now when Andrew Garfield's amazing Spider-Man series came out I did not like it at all I admitted that some of the dialogue between him and Gwen Stacy was good But I just didn't believe him as Peter Parker because he was so good at everything and he's goddamn Andrew Garfield Who's too good-looking to be a Peter Parker. I just thought everything was so corny in that movie And I kept on saying, you know what? I really like the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies Much better and I decided to watch the first one again for the first time in what feels like five or six years I even watched it on my full screen edition DVD Dear god, I was freaking ignorant back then and least to say It's aged terribly if I were to summarize the first Spider-Man movie into a sentence It's Sam Raimi trying to make his own version of a 2000s Tim Burton Batman. Now at the time the film had some special effects and some pretty cool sequences that people enjoyed And some of them still stand up and some of them are still pretty funny The web trying to use the web thing for the first time is still one of my favorite parts of the film but the interactions between Tobi McGuire and Mary Jane Watson The interactions between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin The entire fight sequences are so Campy that they completely resonate with everything that Sam Raimi did with his Evil Dead trilogy and the Dark Man like this is the Dark Man As Spider-Man in a PG-13 form. Not allowed to say that everything isn't bad about this movie I admit that Tobi McGuire does an okay job as a nerdy-ass little Peter Parker and William DeFoe is absolutely phenomenal to watch every time he's on screen. I was gut laughing I was enjoying the movie so so much and that's the other thing too is I still enjoy this movie But now for a completely different reason the campiness between Mary Jane and Tobi McGuire is cringe worthy like it's almost worse than 50 Shades of Grey There's a point in the film when Anne May has been attacked by the Green Goblin She's in the hospital bed and Peter Parker and Mary Jane are sitting there and she's talking about how she thinks She's in love with Spider-Man and because Peter Parker is getting these photos that literally would be impossible to get unless you were Spider-Man He talks about that will Spider-Man asked me about you and she's like oh What did you say and then he goes on this monologue for a good minute or so about what he feels about her and at the time everyone thought maybe oh It's romantic, but really it's creepy. It's stalker creepy It is so uncomfortable that I just oh I couldn't handle it My heart felt like it was going to die because of just how cringy it was But as I said when William DeFoe comes on the screen It just turns into an absolute masterpiece theater when he's talking to his evil self with the mirror He just takes the drink of the glass and throws it away and then holds up the newspaper and turns it around that is gold William DeFoe is still probably one of the best parts of this entire trilogy the reason why I decided to watch this film is because I watched YouTuber's channel called the cosmonaut variety hour and he talked about these movies and he said as comedies They are gold as superhero movies They suck are not very good and he's not wrong as a comedy these movies are fantastic At least this one is I'm going to watch the other ones now But if I thought that the third one was bad because of how campy and silly it was with all the dancing and whatnot How can I say that after? Re-watching the first one now to say that the film is not set its standard for certain superhero movies It didn't the Sam Raimi spider-man movies now if I reflect upon them are a variety of their own They're not past the 90s But they're not into the dark 2000s yet If you were to watch a Marvel movie now and then watch one of the spider-man movies You would think you're watching something from a completely different universe not film universe like actual in space another universe And that's what this movie is I think it all comes down to the end credits when you watch the end credits after you sit through That nickel-back song that I for some reason still know almost all the words, too Sorry, I just died a little saying that And then the sum 41 song Which I also somehow knew all the words to even though I never actually bought a sum 41 album Then comes up the original cartoon spider-man theme song and I have a feeling that's exactly what Sam Raimi was trying to capture Was the original animated show and he did he caught it in All of its campiness there's so many memes and references in the internet to how Really silly that show was so when you see the actual movie and you watch the actual cartoon You sit there going well. Yeah, this is exactly what he was trying to do. They there's no Question of that's what he was trying to do bring this on the live I also made a comment earlier about it trying to be like Tim Burton's Batman The fight scenes in this film are terrible spider-man is supposed to be a very lanky very flexible dude Toby McGuire is in fact too big. He's too squat. He's too wide He doesn't have a lot of flexibility and when it comes to fighting the first time him in Green Goblin fight He stands full stance like this and just simply punches forward I mean it leave the fighting choreography and the amazing spider-man was better But that's because it was all CG now this obviously was a film that was limited with its special effects quality And it is not aged well spider-man still moves a little bit too rubbery He has a little bit of an inhuman sort of speed But I think they did this because they knew if they try to hold on it It would look even faker and it would be really obvious I was CG I give Sam Raimi credit for creating this and I definitely think that this is a standout superhero movie for the very brief period that was the early 2000s but as an actual superhero movie this movie has aged terribly The plot line is incredibly derivative the interactions with characters are either ridiculous stupid or cringe-worthy the Climax of the film is actually super super campy cheesy when Green Goblin's got the cable for the The trolley thing full of kids and Mary Jane in one hand that motherfucker is holding on to something That's got away like five or six tons and he ain't even straining It's just perfect and then he just lets them go like this like nothing So again that gives you an idea of just how silly this movie is Especially when the Green Goblin guys like they go up for some reason during that conversation between him and spider-man About trying to rule the city together, but JJ Jamison still fantastic JK Simmons killed that his writing is fantastic Again as a comedy this movie is great as a superhero movie It is not so in the end my rating for the original spider-man 2002 by Sam Raimi is a three out of seven. It is a campy campy Campy ride and it is funny. It is a fun time to watch, but when you Realize that you've been defending this movie for something odd like almost Almost ten years and refusing to watch the Tom Holland spider-man film because you're just so admittedly I just got so tired of the idea of spider-man being remade three times in the span of two decades But I've got to watch it now. I've got to watch this taste out of my mouth But I'm gonna be watching the second one. Anyways guys. I hope you enjoyed this review It was actually really fun to talk about and if you want to see the video that I was talking about I'm gonna put a link at the end to it's a really good. I actually really like cosmonaut variety hours channel It's a really funny. Anyways guys, if you liked the video leave a like and if you're interested in more maybe subscribe Anyways, that's all from me. I'll see you guys next time